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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I took a picture of poison ivy so that you don't have to get up close to see how furry it is (zoom in). Is it felt? You better hope not! (Sorry, I had to throw in a dad joke) I also have a newfound appreciation for the Aculops rhois mites that blister the plant with galls.

Leaves of three, green with red bumpy galls all over their surface. Zoom in and you will see tiny hairs all over the leaves and stems of the poison ivy.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Innocent me: think that I'll do a quick #duolingo lesson while I wait. Aggro Owl: If you don't do a lesson now, I will find you, I'll see you driven before me, and I'll hear the lamentations of your women.

An alert from Duolingo with a bunch of emojis of side-eye glances and the text, "Hi [redacted]. Just checking in on that lesson you owe me."

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The initial vision for Wescoe Hall at KU was as a 25 story parking garage. They then looked at their pockets and decided to turn it into some classrooms instead. Image: www.flickr.com/photos/jack_...

A dull and filthy concrete 2-story facade with the ground level hidden in shadow. A concrete stairway is unfurled from the shadows, ready to consume a new class of liberal arts majors. Landscaping is minimal and the rest of the "lawn" is also concrete. Welcome to "Wescoe Beach," or as I thought of it, "Dante's 10th Circle."

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Duolingo, you can't just end the story like that! How does Eddie explain his secondary source of income now that Junior thinks he's a lion tamer after finding his hidden stash of leather pants and whips?

Junior: Porque ese es tu trabajo. ¡Y yo quiero ser como tú!
Eddie: Espera... ¿tú crees que yo soy domador de leones?
Junior: Sí, vi los pantalones de cuero y los látigos en tu armario.
Eddie: ¡Ah! Ah...
Junior: Eres domador de leones, ¿verdad?
Eddie: Mmm... sí. Te lo iba a decir, pero se me olvidó.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Awesome! I had forgotten this bon nut.

A detail from a comic book page of a closeup drawing of a brown squirrel with a pink nose and a pink collar. The squirrel is surprised at what she has just been told by her human friend and replies back, "WHAT?! You got accepted into college and you're not even gonna major in SQUIRRELS?" -- from The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, issue 1.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Ditto! Oh to be a KU student back then and be used as an extra.

Movie poster for the made-for-tv-movie "The Day After" from 1983. The image shows a mushroom cloud wiping out skyscrapers with a variety of images of the Kansas City skyline.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Riker is down to the challenge. He'll need help with the skates, though.

Riker looking fabulous in a shimmery light blue blouse that is open down to his appendix. His hairy chest is exposed. Deanna Troi looks like a cat who just ate a canary. Tasha Yar is staring hungrily at Riker's exposed abdomen. Riker stares back at Tasha and his lip gloss and eye shadow seem to say, "Honey, my eyes are up here."

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I think that whomever designed the movie poster never saw the movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt6305...

A terrible Photoshop job that shows an Elderly Ed Asner in the passenger seat and an old woman driving. They are in a red Volkswagen Beetle with a mess of prescription drugs and a set of dentures on the dash. Also on the dash are weed buds spilling out of a yellow bottle. The woman is smoking a cigarette and yet there's an oxygen tank in the seat behind her. Ed Asner is surrounded by 6 cats, most of which are staring straight ahead. One cat is wearing a psychedelic hat and its eyes are icy blue and opened wide. On top of the car is a wicker purse that the woman left on the passenger-side roof. This is the movie that you want to see, but it is not related to the story you get.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Chaucer would agree. You are in good company.

The prolog to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in the original Middle English, with "natúre" highlighted. The text reads:
"Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke."

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

There are 5 books in the penny room. 5. And they look like furniture store prop books. And is that a wooden cigar box?

A glass coffee table with a wooden box (perhaps for cigars), 3 books on top and 2 books below. One has a title but is not legible and is partially obscured by the wooden box atop it. The two books on top have cover designs that look like starling mumurations though one might be a large zayin from the Hebrew alefbet.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This time of year, in the Kansas City area,I find what looks like mud caked on the underside of my hummingbird feeders. Upon closer inspection, it's insect eggs. Does anyone have an idea what kind of insect made these nests? #entomology

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

It looks like both albums are related to a movie series starring Connie Chan Po-chu. Google Translate. www.themoviedb.org/person/93588...

Album cover for the 1967 Hong Kong cinema album, "Cat Eyes Girl." The background color is the orange of roasted carrots. A large cartoon face of a black cat with the same-orange eyes takes up most of the cover. Overlaid is a grayscale image of a young man looking at a young woman as he holds her upper arm and she turns away. Both are seated on the ground. The Google Translate text says that the album is called "Cat Eyes Girl" and shows the names, "Chan Po-chu" and "Tsang Kong."

The cover for a Hong Kong cinema album. Google Translate shows the title as "Black Wild Cat Overlord Shows Off His Power" and the names, "Chen Baozhu" and "Hu Feng." Two black and white images of a woman in a black trenchcoat wearing a black cat cowl, much like Eartha Kitt as Catwoman. One woman is standing, though we only see her from torso and up. The other woman is lying down on her back in an alert pose that suggests she just heard an unexpected sound from the other room.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A male plyphemus moth! My mother found a female at her place

A female polyphemus moth on a weathered wooden post. It has a thick leading edge like a mono wing airplane. It's eye spots are easy to see on its primary wings.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I made a 3-kiddush lunch martini for Pesach: vodka, vermouth, and pickled herring. Guests declared it "um, interesting."

A martini glass containing a clear liquid and a piece of pickled herring

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

#TIL HTTP 218 - only used on Apache web servers. http.dev/218

Cartoon dog with large pupils, wearing a small hat, and sitting in a room on that is in flames. In front of the dog is a mug on a circular table. Written in the smoke collecting at the top of the room is "HTTP 218." The next panel shows a closeup of the dog, smiling, while saying, "This is fine."

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

🎶 Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks, F*CK OFF 🎶

A woman playing guitar to some children on a mountain. A scene from The Sound of Music

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

🎶 I like big buttes and I cannot lie 🎶

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Rereading a Deadpool collection from the public library. www.goodreads.com/book/show/48... A surprise Johnny Dangerously reference!

Deadpool is fighting Taskmaster, outside of this frame. Taskmaster had just cut off one of Deadpool's fingers. We see a dropped sword and a pool of blood at Deadpool's feet. Deadpool says, "Y'Know, my mother cut off my finger once --"

The next frame is a closeup of Deadpool clutching his hand, his eyes narrowed to thin angry slits. He says icily, "Once."

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

And one would be a mix of everything. Like a camel and a leopard.

An old drawing of a giraffe by someone who has never seen one and has only heard one described. The dimensions and features are wrong, like the spots look like a leopard's rather than a giraffes.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Looks like a microscope image of a triceratium diatom jmcscientificconsulting.com/wp-content/u...

A grayscale magnification image of a triangular diatom. The center of each leg of the triangle is curved inward as if the silicate shell of the diatom were squishy. The interior of the legs show clusters of dots that look like stalls at a souk or shops at an airport.

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Never has my lock screen felt more true #snowmageddon 1 2 3 4 I declare a

IPhone lock screen shows a graphic of a snowflake followed by the text: "Blizzard War..."

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

@hildur.bsky.social look what we received from an Icelandic friend. Had I not seen your posts, I would not have known who these characters were, and I would not have been so excited to see this children's game. Presented in the order that the cards were in the box.

A red square box with cartoon characters doing a variety of things. In Icelandic, "Litla Jólasveinaspilið -Samstæðuspil" and in English, "The Small Yule Lads Game - Memory matching game"

A red square of paper with a bunch of cartoon men, women, and children doing various things. There's also a disgruntled black cat.

5 cards with cartoon pictures of Yule lads: Gluggagægir - Window Peeper, Gáttaþefir - Doorway Sniffer, Bjúgnakrækir - Sausage Swiper, Ketkrókur - Meat Hook, Kertasníkir - Candle Begger

8 cards with cartoon Yule lads: Giljagaur - Gully Gawk, Stekkjarstaur - "Sheep - Cote Clod", Stúfur - Stubby, Pottasleikir - Pot Scraper, Þvörusleikir - Spoon Licker, Askasleikir - Bowl Licker, Hurðaskellir - Door Slammer, Skyrgámur - Skyr Gobbler

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Eric of the Poe People @ericpoe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I have never seen a gas pump go through diagnostics and reboot itself. I didn't mind the wait because I'm a nerd who likes to watch boot sequences.

A gas pump screen at Casey's General Store going through it's lengthy boot sequence. Provided by Gilbarco Veeder-Root. Starting system... Check filesystem... Starting Secman... Set network... Log compression... Updating config... Verifying hierarchies... Verifying single resources... Loading Cloud... Loading GrindBIOS... Loading diagnostic... Loading display manager... Loading Env... Loading Opt... Loading printer extender... Loading resources... Loading VCL plugin... Loading VFI... Setup permissions... Configurating... Starting applications...

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